For some time now, a horse has been catching a public bus in Dearborn, Michigan. It is a little horse, certainly, and it is in the company of a woman. The woman is blind and the horse is her seeing-eye horse.1 A seeing-eye horse? Why not a seeing-eye dog? Well, because the woman is a Muslim, a devout Muslim, and so she believes that dogs are impure. The presence of horses on buses is just one way that Muslim superstition about dogs is impacting life in Western nations. Another is the objection to seeing-eye dogs in taxis. In recent years…
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